By Oken Jeet Sandham
Nagaland, KOHIMA, Apr 5 (NEPS): New Speaker of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) Chotisuh Sazo said he wanted to come up with various developments and facilities for the legislators who stayed in the Legislatures’ Home and also for the officers and staffs of the Assembly who also stayed in their residential quarters here near the Assembly Complex.
Talking to NEPS here at his office chamber Friday, the Speaker disclosed that there were no recreational facilities, no proper security gate, and no shopping facilities for the legislators, Assembly officers and staffs and their family members who are staying in their residential quarters here in the Assembly Complex. “There is also no schooling facility especially for their children either,” he added.
“As soon as I took over the reign of the post of the Speaker of the Assembly, I have studied the essential and immediate requirements for the legislators, Assembly officers and staffs and their family members who are staying here in their respective quarters near the Assembly,” Sazo said. “The problem is they are staying quite far from the towns.”
The Speaker said he had been seriously contemplating to provide a “shopping mall, multi-purpose hall and other recreational facilities at the earliest,” so that legislators and the Assembly officers and staffs and their family members should not have hassles of going to towns which are far away from their residential quarters. At the same time, they would also develop a healthy and peaceful lifestyles during their stay here, he narrated.
“We have also already proposed to establish a school here so that children of the legislators, officers and staffs of the Assembly will not worry for their children,”
Sazo stated. “My main intention is I wanted to give them comfortable and peaceful stay in these areas and also live like others.”